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- catalog abstract ""Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self-worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerged to alter and "enhance" their appearance. Nora Jacobson traces the hundred-year history of one such technology: breast implants." "Organized both chronologically and thematically, this book examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of the devices and the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of their use. Jacobson examines such topics as politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11533600.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self-worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerged to alter and "enhance" their appearance. Nora Jacobson traces the hundred-year history of one such technology: breast implants." "Organized both chronologically and thematically, this book examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of the devices and the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of their use. Jacobson examines such topics as politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1 Staging Babel: A Chronicle of the Controversy 14 -- 2 Paradox of the Natural 48 -- 3 A Pleasing Enlargement From Within 73 -- 4 Medical Construction of Need (Or, the "Psychology of the Flat-Chested Woman") 106 -- 5 Real Suffering: the Creation of Silicone Disease 144 -- 6 Specialty Nearest Sculpture in the Living 171 -- 7 A Calculus of Risk 202 -- 8 After Babel: an Epilogue 232.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "p. cm.".
- catalog identifier "0813527147 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0813527155 (paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers,".
- catalog subject "2000 D-823".
- catalog subject "618.1/90592 21".
- catalog subject "Breast Implantation.".
- catalog subject "Breast Implants.".
- catalog subject "Breast implants Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "RD539.8 .J33 2000".
- catalog subject "Silicone Gels.".
- catalog subject "WP 910 J17c 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 Staging Babel: A Chronicle of the Controversy 14 -- 2 Paradox of the Natural 48 -- 3 A Pleasing Enlargement From Within 73 -- 4 Medical Construction of Need (Or, the "Psychology of the Flat-Chested Woman") 106 -- 5 Real Suffering: the Creation of Silicone Disease 144 -- 6 Specialty Nearest Sculpture in the Living 171 -- 7 A Calculus of Risk 202 -- 8 After Babel: an Epilogue 232.".
- catalog title "Cleavage : technology, controversy, and the ironies of the man-made breast / Nora Jacobson.".
- catalog type "text".